Office of Experiments is directed by John Beck & Neal White. Affiliated members include; Gail Davies, Lisa Haskel, Erik Kearney, Steve Rowell and Harry Smith.
Investigations and research-led activity developed in collaboration with: N55, DK (2004-6), Katrin Soldhju, DE (2006), Nicolas Langlitz, DE (2006), Jens Hauser, DE (2006), Steve Rowell – USA (2008-), Lisa Haskel, UK (2008-), Gail Davies, UK (2008-), Mike Kenner, UK (2008-), John Hill (2010), Luce Choules, UK (2012), Tina O’Connell, IE (2012-), Dominic Walker, UK (2015), Rob Smith and Rebecca Birch of Field Broadcast (2014), Anna Troisi, IT (2015-18), Anna Santomauro, IT (2016-), Claudia Lastra, UK (2016-), Alec Steadman, UK (2016), John Beck, UK (2016 -), Monsoon Assemblages, UK (2020-21), Deep Field Project; Diann Bauer, USA and Jol Thoms, CA (2020-) Bill Thompson, USA (2018-), Erik Kearney, IE (2008-) and Harry Smith (2023-).
Research, projects and curation.
Thanks to Nicola Triscott and Rob La Frenais of Arts Catalyst, London (2004 -18), Henry Moore Foundation (2007), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, SCAN, New Forest (2008-9), Big Picture, Dorset (2011), Chelsea College of Art (2009-10), Center for Land Use Interpretation and Flat Time House, London.
Office of Experiments projects have been exhibited Internationally, including; Central Pavilion of Giardini; Venice Biennale of Architecture with Monsoon Assemblages (2021), Who Wants to Live Forever, With Deep Field Project at Kunsthalle, Trondheim – Norway (2020), Into The Great Wide Open – Arts and Music Festival, Vlieland, Netherlands (2019), Test Sites at Arts Catalyst Centre London (various others 2003-18), Fargfabriken, Stockholm (2017), Wysing Arts, Cambridge (2015), Suspension of Disbelief at Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington DC (2012), The John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2008-9) and Camden Roundhouse with N55 (2006).
Autonomous research has been supported by many of our collaborators who work within and across different disciplines, institutions and funding models in the arts. Whilst projects have been funded largely by arts funding, ongoing activity is undertaken within but is largely independent from academic research activity. We therefore thank all those organisations and individuals who support such independent and autonomous research, with or without knowing.
Our thanks to supporters and funders on individual projects;
Arts Catalyst (UK), Zone2Source (Holland), Portikus – Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main – (Germany), The Latham Estate (UK), O+I (formerly Artist Placement Group) (UK), The Centre for Land Use Interpretation (USA), The Henry Moore Foundation (UK), Arts Council of England (UK), Camberwell Offsite Projects (UK), John Hansard Gallery (UK), Max-Planck Institute (Germany), FACT, Liverpool (UK), B-Side (UK), Museum of London (UK), Heritage Lottery Fund (UK).
